The “Women in politics: 2026” map shows persistent male dominance in political power. As of 1 January 2026, women lead only 28 countries, hold 27.4 per cent of parliamentary seats, and hold 22.4 per cent of cabinet posts, marking regression.
Editors of the interdisciplinary journals Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Frontiers, and Signs discuss the second Trump administration’s attacks on women’s and gender studies.
Understanding Technology-Facilitated Gender-based Violence (TFGBV) in the Philippines Understanding TFGBV in the Philippines Since 2012, the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) has documented 738 cases of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) in the Philippines in its Read more
This is a great oral history project which aims to capture the early days of the Women’s Aid Federation of England (WAFE), 1974–1984. There are 12 interviews carried out between 2022 and 2024. They offer insight into women’s support for survivors of domestic violence and grassroots advocacy. Details of the main archive are provided on the website.
Mrs Justice Lieven of the High Court has handed down her judgment in the case of University of Sussex v Office for Students. She concludes that the regulator falsely treated the Sussex trans and non-binary equality policy statement as a governing document, and did not read the policy in the light of the university’s freedom of speech code of practice. She also found that there was strong evidence of predetermination throughout the process by which OfS investigated and fined Sussex for a breach of its freedom of speech duty.
The Global Misogyny News Coverage Tracker unearths endemic violence against women yet low coverage of these stories. Across 1.14bn articles, misogyny-related coverage hit a 1.3% low in 2025. Survivor-, solutions- and system- based angles are needed.
the Dag Hammarskjöld Library has now digitised over 690 documents from the 1980 World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace” convened in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 14 to 30 July 1980, This was the second global gathering on women during the United Nations Decade for Women (1976–1985). It served as a mid-decade review of progress made since the first World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975.all the documents are prefixed by the symbol These documents, identified by the series symbol A/CONF.94/–,
Women constitute the majority of older persons globally, and the number of older women is projected to increase rapidly over the next decades. Although women live longer than men on average, they tend to spend a higher proportion of their later years living in poor health or with disability, often due to a higher burden of non-communicable diseases and chronic conditions. Integrating a gender perspective into health, social protection and care systems is critical to improve the quality of life of all older persons and to enable their full contributions to advancing sustainable development.
** This lecture includes Holocaust and WWII imagery that some viewers may find distressing.** What is it that makes an image stick in our memory against our will? People find many of Lee Miller’s combat photographs have this indelible quality, and of these the most powerful are from her witness of the Holocaust. Her stark and harrowing evidence takes us back to one of the most terrible episodes of persecution in the whole grim history of man’s inhumanity to man.
This research explores the impacts of TFGBV on the experiences of Black Brazilian women, as well as documenting how we/they have been resisting, creating connections with each other and finding joy in spite of the hostility of online environments.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Scrapbook, 1907-1929, Millicent Garrett Fawcett's personal scrapbook of material related to women's suffrage. Album contains personal ephemera, press cuttings, tributes, photographs invitations, cards, cartoons (mostly from Punch) suffrage and election flyers, including obituary of Millicent Garrett Fawcett., 7MGF/B/08, Out of Copyright., Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Dame, 1847-1929, Ephemera, Suffrage Collection, Suffrage Scrapbooks
A great resource co created by the women’s grassroots activism project a partipatory research project Funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX008606%2F1)
Which ran from 2023-25 . The project set out to identify how grassroots women’s organisations, working to enhance the lives of women and girls since the early 1900s, can co-identify strategies to safeguard their future activities and activism for the next 100+ years. the network worked with : the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA); the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI); the Federation of Women’s Institutes of Northern Ireland (WINI); the Soroptimists International Tunbridge Wells and District Club; Soroptimists International South East Region; Soroptimists International Republic of Ireland and Soroptimists International Northern Ireland,
includes advice for activists including record keeping advcacy tactics and methods such as storytelling. It ha smany real life examples taken from the groups.
Decision-making in grantmaking processes is often done in closed boardrooms, far away from communities that are at the forefront of intersecting crises. Traditional grantmaking usually follows a top-down approach where donors (often from the Global North) decide what the objectives and impacts of a given program will be and who will be the main beneficiaries of the funds. This often protects the status quo, sidelining those who are most impacted by sociopolitical issues and funding cuts. Despite this traditional and top-down approach, more and more international non-government organizations are challenging this status quo such as FRIDA, Mama Cash, and Prospera International, three intersectional feminist organizations that work with grassroots women, girls, trans, and intersex groups by providing them with grants and resources to advance their causes and fight for gender justice through feminist participatory grantmaking (FPG).
In feminist participatory grantmaking (FPG), communities are treated as active partners who can provide significant insights, expertise, and lived experience that support more effective decision-making, promote robust conversations, and foster mutual accountability (Evans 2015; Villanueva 2021). FPG recognizes that justice in philanthropy requires redistribution of power in decision-making and recognition of community-based knowledge as a legitimate source of evidence, and not just an afterthought.
FPG deepens our understanding of diverse perspectives and realities and how to most effectively support feminist organizers across political, social, and economic contexts (FRIDA, 2022). In these critical times, where civic spaces are shrinking and progressive movements are being met by increasing backlash by right-wing groups, many public and private donors are shifting their priorities to other “urgent” agendas. FPG becomes even more pivotal as vulnerable communities are being pushed further to the margins. Feminist funding models hold the key in ensuring that these marginalized voices are prioritized and heard in crucial decision-making processes. Speakers:
- Erika Sales is a feminist activist and strategist with over 18 years of experience. She began her journey in social movements, working in feminist research, advocacy, and cross-border campaigning before moving into feminist philanthropy and grantmaking. She supports movements across the Asia-Pacific and globally through strategy development, partnerships, and resourcing. She currently works with Mama Cash and has previously worked with organisations including the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA), Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Greenpeace Southeast Asia, and the DAWN Feminist Network. Across these spaces, she focuses on redistributing resources more equitably, strengthening movement ecosystems, and building partnerships grounded in trust, care, and feminist values.
-Jessica Horn is an (East) African feminist, ideamonger, futurist and strategist with 20+ years in philanthropy and work for social change with a feminist vision. An innovator by inclination, Jessica pioneered the African Women’s Development Fund’s Futures initiative and contributed to the design of FRIDA and UHAI-EASHRi, early models of participatory grantmaking. In 2021, she became the first African woman to lead the Ford Foundation in Nairobi. Trained in women’s health rights, she served on the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. Jessica is the author of African Feminist Praxis: Cartographies of Liberatory Worldmaking, which explores generations of African feminist organising.
Moderator: - Anne-Di Berdin has worked for Global Forest Coalition, an organisation that advocates for forest protection and indigenous land rights, and at Mama Cash, one of the pioneers in global feminist funding. She is a gender justice advocate with experience in program coordination, monitoring and evaluation, research, and training facilitation. Originally from the Philippines, she is now based in the Netherlands and is an active member of the EADI Gender Justice Working Group.
The Centre for Young Lives has published a blog about its research with Agenda Alliance on the mental health of young women and girls in the UK. The research included an evidence review, a roundtable discussion, and interviews with stakeholders from the women and girls’ sector, youth and mental health sectors. The report discusses the prevalence of mental health problems among girls and young women; their experiences with mental health services; and the role of philanthropy in bridging gaps in mental health support. It sets out ten recommendations to illustrate how philanthropy can deliver change for girls and young women’s mental health and help to strengthen the sector.
This fascinating blog post by a records specialist showcases a selection of historic letters displayed in the 2026 National Archives Love Letters exhibition, along with responses from visitors.
They include same‑sex love, forbidden love, and other expressions of intimacy, including some which at various points in history were criminalised. The visitors’ responses document their emotions and experiences using visual, written, and audio methods.
IMF’s policy advice on tax in its Article IV reports since the pandemic has been skewed towards regressive taxation. This indicates its continued insistence on austerity as the default way forward, thereby entrenching gender and economic inequalities.
An Open Letter, signed by over 100 organisations and coordinated by Hague Mothers, is trying to remove Clause 104 of the UK’s Crime & Policing Bill, which will criminalise DV victim-survivors who flee the country with their children to keep them safe. They are asking people to write to their MPs about the issue. For more information, please email advocacyhague@filia.org.uk
An online exhibition curated by AMNESTY WCARO which examines the persecution of women for witchcraft in Northern Ghana through the voices and experiences of women accused. The site has a 3d tour and exhibition catalogue
Great news @lse.library has just digitised the Townswoman 1933-1954
https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ The Townswomen's Guilds were founded in 1929 by Eva Hubback and Dame Margery Corbett Ashby. The aim of the organisation was to educate women to be citizens. The journals are a fascinating source of information on an interwar women's organisation - the type of events they organised, local branch activities. Examples of welfare campaigns and activism at a grassroots level. find out more: https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/5TGH
This research weaves together the experience of LGBTQIA+ communities in Ethiopia – how they are impacted by online gender-based violence, yet continue to exist and build community with creativity, resistance and strength.
Platform workers have consistently highlighted abysmal payouts, erratic rate cuts, tedious working hours, panoptic surveillance, and ineffective grievance redressal systems in India. Wages are determined algorithmically, fluctuating according to the variables companies choose to prioritise. With their income hinging on daily, weekly or monthly incentives, workers are inadvertently pressured to work long hours, target peak demand periods or travel to multiple locations to maximise their incomes. Led by the Internet Research Lab, India, “GigSaathi: A feminist action research project to address wage disparities and platform power”, aims at addressing a key power dynamic between digital platforms and gig workers: the information asymmetry on wages.
Record of the Suffrage Pilgrimage, manuscript diary by Marjory Lees, 1911-1932, Manuscript diary by Marjory Lees who went with 8 women from Oldham as part of the Manchester contingent of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) Pilgrimage to London, 7-26 July 1913. It includes press cuttings and leaflets relating to the pilgrimage. At the front are press cuttings, leaflet and invitation (1911, 1912, 1932) and a letter from Marjory Lees (undated) to Mrs Horton, Oldham (2OWS/3) at the back., 2OWS/2, In Copyright., Lees, Marjory, Diaries, Suffrage Collection, Suffrage Scrapbooks
The “Women in politics: 2026” map shows persistent male dominance in political power. As of 1 January 2026, women lead only 28 countries, hold 27.4 per cent of parliamentary seats, and hold 22.4 per cent of cabinet posts, marking regression.
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